Open AccessAGING ANXIETY: A STUDY OF FACTOR INFLUENCING ATTITUDES TO AGE AMONG CIVIL SERVANTS IN NIGERIA
Author(s) -
a Pauline,
N. Ikwuegbu,
Daniel Omatalu
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal of advanced research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2320-5407
DOI - 10.21474/ijar01/12712
Subject(s) - civil servants , scale (ratio) , psychology , social psychology , anxiety , regression analysis , confirmatory factor analysis , clinical psychology , structural equation modeling , political science , geography , psychiatry , mathematics , law , cartography , politics , statistics
The present study aimed to examine religious commitment as a scarcely explored variable that could predict aging attitudes. The study adopted a cross-sectional survey. A total of one hundred and eighty-seven civil servants were randomly selected as the research participants. The respondents completed self-report measures of religious commitment scale and attitude to owns aging scale. A linear regression analysis was performed on the data, and the result revealed a significant association between religious commitment and attitude towards aging. It was indicating that religious commitment predicted attitude towards aging. The research finding, implications, and conclusions are discussed.